Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
The first deployment of Ushahidi in Russia – the “Help Map” project (Russian-fires.ru) that worked as a mutual aid coordination platform during unprecedented wildfires last summer – received the most prestigious award of the Russian Internet. The “Runet Award 2010” (Premia Runeta) was granted to “Help Map” as the best project in a category “State
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (BTR) has recently begun a three-year project that will integrate Esri’s geographic information system (GIS) technology into its digital airport management system. The project will combine GIS and airport management to enhance many aspects of the airport’s operations, such as data, asset, and workflow management. It will also benefit the airport significantly
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The Report of the 2010 Caribbean Marine Atlas (CMA) Review and Planning Workshop as well as Saint Lucia Coastal Atlas Stakeholders Event is now available as IOC Workshop Report No. 235. During the 2010 CMA Review and Planning Workshop participants assessed progress of the CMA project at the national as well as regional level. In particular they
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The Java Reconstruction Fund (JRF) pooled contributions from seven donor countries totaling US$94.1 million. A community-driven approach, fueled by the spirit of “gotong royong” – a Javanese expression to illustrate communal cooperation to achieve a shared objective – led to the building of 15,153 permanent earthquake resistant houses and completion of 1,892 infrastructure projects such
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
On December 4 and 5, in over twenty locations around the world, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and The World Bank will host the third Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), their progressive initiative that brings together volunteer software developers and experts in disaster risk management for a weekend-long “hackathon” to create software solutions that can help mitigate or respond to disasters
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
RG has teamed up with Flodim, the French sonar specialists, to bring a full range of sonar survey services to the UK. Commercial operations will commence in November 2010 with field units based in Deganwy, North Wales as well as in Manosque in the South of France. We will offer offshore operations from early 2011.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Alongside industry-leading GIS consulting and training services for the oil and gas sector, Exprodat provides a range of GIS-based software designed specifically for use in petroleum exploration and production (E&P) departments. One of these is the popular Team-GIS KBridge.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Pitney Bowes Business Insight has announced that Somerset County Council has gone live with the UK’s most advanced highways management system, based on Confirm®, PBBI’s market-leading infrastructure asset maintenance and management system.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
The European environment — state and outlook 2010 (SOER 2010) is aimed primarily at policymakers, in Europe and beyond, involved with framing and implementing policies that could support environmental improvements in Europe. The information also helps European citizens to better understand, care for and improve Europe’s environment.
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
Forty-nine Ashtech® MobileMapper® 6 GPS/GIS field terminals have been purchased by two key Republic of Kosovo agencies, the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) and the Kosovo Cadastre Agency (KCA), to map property boundaries to help resolve private property claims. While the KPA is specialized in solving property and juridical conflicts, the KCA on the other hand
